While our children only make up a fraction of our population, they make up a %100 of our future. The future of this country is in their hands. Some will go on to be doctors or lawyers, some will go other routes such as mechanics and engineers, but they will all start together, in one room, learning the same thing, in the exact same way in public schools. Every single child is gifted early education, but at what cost? Free, or so one would assume. Yet, how free are our children when they are robbed of free thinking, creativity, independence, and individuality? Albert Einstein once said, “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school” yet, isn’t school the most important thing for education (Albert Einstein,
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Whereas a doctor can perform surgery and save a life, a teacher educated that student to be a doctor and gave him that life. Yet, they are often blamed, it’s not their fault. They work for a system without many options. Teaching kids by rules and regulations without allowing that child’s true protentional to shine through. Labeling many of our students as failures for not meeting the goals of the curriculum for the test, but that’s simply not true. How can we label our students as failures, when it is us who are failing them? Failing to bring out their own passions and encourage lessons that fit their needs. Let individuality shine through and reach the hearts of our children to have more passionate doctors saving our lives. Teaching them to excessively take test will not help our children in their adult lives (Procon, …show more content…
Children now spend more time being tested in literacy and math than they do learning from hand on things such as playing and exploring, exercising outdoors, interacting with other students, and using their imaginations. We can surely see the difference between superficial play and the silly make-believe play that can engage a young child’s mind powered by nothing more than their own ideas and creative choice of words. We can easily distinguish the sound of a chaotic classroom from the notion of energy felt from children who are deeply and eagerly engaged in the flow of learning hands on through, yes, things such as play.
To begin to solve the problem of standardized test, you must first understand the effects that it has on our children and teachers, present and futures. Facing the trials of standardized test only belittles our education system. The pressure of standardized tests is to much. Students try to cram too much information in with only a short time. Memory capabilities suffer from the stress of one test that can determine whether they get kept behind to do an entire school year over. Bad test scores may can also make them feel insecure about their intelligence and encourage our students to give
Whereas a doctor can perform surgery and save a life, a teacher educated that student to be a doctor and gave him that life. Yet, they are often blamed, it’s not their fault. They work for a system without many options. Teaching kids by rules and regulations without allowing that child’s true protentional to shine through. Labeling many of our students as failures for not meeting the goals of the curriculum for the test, but that’s simply not true. How can we label our students as failures, when it is us who are failing them? Failing to bring out their own passions and encourage lessons that fit their needs. Let individuality shine through and reach the hearts of our children to have more passionate doctors saving our lives. Teaching them to excessively take test will not help our children in their adult lives (Procon, …show more content…
Children now spend more time being tested in literacy and math than they do learning from hand on things such as playing and exploring, exercising outdoors, interacting with other students, and using their imaginations. We can surely see the difference between superficial play and the silly make-believe play that can engage a young child’s mind powered by nothing more than their own ideas and creative choice of words. We can easily distinguish the sound of a chaotic classroom from the notion of energy felt from children who are deeply and eagerly engaged in the flow of learning hands on through, yes, things such as play.
To begin to solve the problem of standardized test, you must first understand the effects that it has on our children and teachers, present and futures. Facing the trials of standardized test only belittles our education system. The pressure of standardized tests is to much. Students try to cram too much information in with only a short time. Memory capabilities suffer from the stress of one test that can determine whether they get kept behind to do an entire school year over. Bad test scores may can also make them feel insecure about their intelligence and encourage our students to give